University of Colorado Denver in the Stanford/Elsevier 2026 list
The Stanford/Elsevier list covers the top 2% most-cited scientists in each subfield. These are the people from this institution on at least one of its two rankings: career-long and single-year (citations from 2025).
53
researchers on the list
395
rank in United States
1,185
rank worldwide, of 38,384
Ranks by number of people on the list; we calculate them from the same data.
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| Name | Subfield | Career | Single-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hay, William W. | Pediatrics | 21 / 81,129 | 40 / 81,129 |
| Weible, Christopher M. | Political Science & Public Administration | 114 / 27,183 | 71 / 27,183 |
| Moreland, Larry Wayne | Arthritis & Rheumatology | 94 / 45,980 | 221 / 45,980 |
| Venter, Carina | Allergy | 246 / 19,768 | 28 / 19,768 |
| Cascio, Wayne F. | Business & Management | 313 / 68,786 | 476 / 68,786 |
| Lockley, Martin Gaudin | Paleontology | 60 / 23,292 | 56 / 23,292 |
| Gabow, Patricia A. | Urology & Nephrology | 268 / 96,288 | 1,063 / 96,288 |
| Hokanson, John E. | Respiratory System | 370 / 71,926 | 758 / 71,926 |
| Edelstein, Charles L. | Urology & Nephrology | 409 / 96,288 | 497 / 96,288 |
| Wang, Haobin | Chemical Physics | 855 / 121,889 | 960 / 121,889 |
| Solomonow, Moshe | Biomedical Engineering | 217 / 74,543 | 1,101 / 74,543 |
| Schiff, Michael H. | Arthritis & Rheumatology | 371 / 45,980 | 744 / 45,980 |
| Cox, Louis Anthony Tony | Strategic, Defence & Security Studies | 84 / 32,161 | 107 / 32,161 |
| Sitzmann, Traci M. | Business & Management | 1,345 / 68,786 | 1,326 / 68,786 |
| Mandel, Jan | Numerical & Computational Mathematics | 97 / 17,431 | 240 / 17,431 |
| Leech, Nancy L. | Education | 773 / 115,687 | 813 / 115,687 |
| Alfrey, Allen C. | Urology & Nephrology | 663 / 96,288 | — |
| Nëmeth, Jeremy | Urban & Regional Planning | — | 217 / 15,338 |
| Desai, Vinit M. | Business & Management | — | 1,715 / 68,786 |
| Reeves, John T. | Physiology | 394 / 26,472 | — |
| Burke, Jenna J. | Accounting | — | 163 / 7,240 |
| Davis, Sean R. | Oncology & Carcinogenesis | — | 2,670 / 377,791 |
| Heikkila, Tanya | Political Science & Public Administration | — | 756 / 27,183 |
| Bearman, Scott I. | Immunology | 2,396 / 176,292 | — |
| Beall, Jeffrey | Information & Library Sciences | 82 / 15,996 | 75 / 15,996 |
| Crowley, Thomas J. | Substance Abuse | 362 / 18,209 | — |
| deSouza, Priyanka Nadia | Environmental Sciences | — | 2,499 / 140,934 |
| Gunny, Katherine A. | Accounting | — | 200 / 7,240 |
| Franca, Leopoldo Penna | Applied Mathematics | 312 / 23,982 | — |
| Christensen, Kenneth T. | Fluids & Plasmas | 1,161 / 58,297 | — |
| Saral, Rein | General & Internal Medicine | 1,579 / 360,081 | — |
| Deterding, Robin R. | Respiratory System | 1,251 / 71,926 | 1,257 / 71,926 |
| Yang, Jian | Finance | 241 / 16,367 | — |
| Kempe, Charles Henry | Pediatrics | 729 / 81,129 | — |
| Fiol, C. Marlene | Health Policy & Services | 371 / 23,941 | 297 / 23,941 |
| DeCamp, Matthew W. | General & Internal Medicine | 3,078 / 360,081 | 1,872 / 360,081 |
| Marcus, Alfred C. | Public Health | 1,538 / 82,273 | — |
| Dong, Guoying | Industrial Engineering & Automation | — | 1,834 / 131,085 |
| Sullivan, Shelby A. | Gastroenterology & Hepatology | — | 1,620 / 113,536 |
| Scott, Judy E. | Information Systems | 404 / 19,463 | — |
| Sullender, Wayne M. | Virology | 1,507 / 79,508 | — |
| Sander, Louis W. | Psychoanalysis | 37 / 3,511 | — |
| Berg, John W. | Oncology & Carcinogenesis | 6,867 / 377,791 | — |
| Gardner, Rick M. | Sport Sciences | 756 / 41,112 | — |
| Lodwick, Weldon Alexander | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 4,999 / 517,648 | — |
| Nora, James J. | General & Internal Medicine | 2,674 / 360,081 | — |
| Kulig, Kenneth W. | Emergency & Critical Care Medicine | 748 / 44,281 | — |
| Kilcoyne, Ray F. | Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging | 2,594 / 129,561 | — |
| Miller, Lucy Jane | Rehabilitation | — | 668 / 31,889 |
| Stool, Sylvan E. | Otorhinolaryngology | 1,167 / 54,521 | — |
| Białasiewicz, Jan T. | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | 1,366 / 133,072 | — |
| Main, Deborah S. | General & Internal Medicine | 4,948 / 360,081 | — |
| Lee, Woonghee | Biophysics | — | 352 / 21,025 |
Source: Ioannidis JPA, Elsevier (2026). August 2026 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators". Mendeley Data, version 9. Licence CC BY-NC 3.0. doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9
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